ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,319, issued on May 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Rating-based mapping of data to memory" was invented by Carla L. Christensen (Boise, Idaho), Gangotree Chakma (San Jose, Calif.), Yingqi Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Yunfei Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Bhumika Chhabra (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for rating-based mapping of data to memory are described. A memory system may determine a first rating for a set of data selected for writing to a memory system. The memory system may select a target page of a block in the memory system for writing the set of data based a...